"About Prisoners of War (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)" Topic

"During the Great War, at least 217,746 Ottomans were taken captive by the Entente on one of the various fronts where Ottomans fought. About 150,000 of them were captured by the British. The Ottomans captured more than 34,000 Entente soldiers – mainly British, Indian and Dominion, Russian, French and Romanian – who were interned not in formal barbed wire camps but mostly in Anatolian towns in unused houses, school and church buildings. The mortality rate of the British and Dominion prisoners in Ottoman captivity was very high. Ottomans in Russian captivity may have suffered from similarly high rates of death…."
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is there not also the loss of life on the march of prisoners after the fall of kut in 1916. buth by illness and outright murder. did not ordinary soldiers also had to work as slave labour especially in the coal mines. the officers were treated better and townsend (the commanding general at kut) was kept in a high degree of comfort.

Yes, Townsend spent his period of imprisonment living in a very comfortable estate on an island in the Sea of Marmara.

IIRC, he was not exactly accorded a hero's welcome upon his return to England at the end of the war.

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